Margaret Thatcher — "It is not the business of government to nationalize industries. It is the busine…"
It is not the business of government to nationalize industries. It is the business of government to keep industries competitive.
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More from Margaret Thatcher
"We must not be afraid to be ourselves."
"I am not a bully. I am a realist."
"I always cheer up immensely when I see a headline that says 'Minority of One'."
"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
"I always cheer up immensely if anything is said to me that is particularly wounding, because I think, 'There is someone who need not be considered.'"
About Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right. Closely associated with Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally). For an intellectual contrast, see Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.